Seriously I'm not that crazy

Meet our new addition. Resuced today from the Chicago Canine Rescue here is Blazer
An 8 week old Labador Retriever. We've been talking about getting one for a while. I know it's a puppy and the whole training factor and all that jazz. But we were so lucky with Bailey( our first puppy, we had to leave her in az. when we moved the town house didn't allow pets. We had planned on bringing her back once we got into a house. Unfortunatly she ran away from josh's dad and now no bailey) that Josh and I both wanted another puppy that the boys and girl could grow up with. Jase picked him out and everyone is totally in love with him. He has enough puppy in him that he like to chew on his toy and occassionally a hand. But he is also the most mellow puppy. Is very relaxed and just likes to cuddle. Then again will see how he acts on a day when there is not so much excitment and he isn't so exausted.






And just in case you didn't catch on. This was how we are adding to our family. So NO i'm not expecting. :)

Birthday FUN

One of Jases birthday presents included a Lion Cub from Gamma, that comes to life. As you cuddle and pet it, the lion purrs, roars, growls, and moves it's mouth and eyes. Really cute! but for some I guess it seems a little to REAL. So not only did grandmas gift make Jase smile and think he got a "new Pet" for his birthday, but it gave mom a good laugh too.

Kage has been slowly getting better. He will go near it now as long as it is turned off or asleep. But if you ask if you can turn it on he says." no, no scare me" I'm guessing he won't be asking for one for his birthday

Where to begin

Lets start with the cruise.

The last part of November we went on a 8 day cruise with Josh's Family to the Eastern Caribbean. Unfortunately Varsity was a only 4months old and the cruise line requires that infants be 6 months. So I flew to Arizona Wednesday before thanksgiving. My mom and the rest of my family watched Miss V while we were gone. It worked out to be alot of fun. I was able to spend a few days and Thanksgiving with my family. We had a great Thanksgiving at jerraes house. And yeah for BrieAnna for being the only one to wear her Reindeer earrings.

the next day josh arranged for my flight to leave a little later in the morning so that I had a chance to do a little Traditional Black Friday shopping. ( I had to catch a flight to Florida to meet up with the rest of the family who had earlier flights from chicago and matt and michelle that had flown out on thanksgiving)... back to the shopping ...we use to all make matching sweat shirts and then all hit the store together. Our last year that we did it we were the 12 days of Christmas, each one of was a day. 1mom 2dad 3joran 4josh 5jase 6kage 7kadin 8brieanna 9joey 10jerrae 11chris 12bryndan

Brie mom and I were up by two, brie was suppose to meet us at moms house at 2:45 and to be honest I didn't think she would make it. I expected a call saying she had been up with brenLeigh all night or something. But to my surprise when I called her at 2:30 she was already on the freeway and almost to moms house. When she got there she had the cutest little coke bottles. we had the best time it wasn't even really cold outside. Varsity got to experience her first black friday shopping outing and got her first JcPenny globe.

Onto the Cruise. It was so much fun we had 3 different stops Puerto Rico. St Thomas. St marrten, and Haiti. My fave was probably Haiti. it was royal Caribbeans own private part of the island. Very relaxing and very pretty. In st. Marrten Josh and I did Americas cup sailing and actually got to do the sailing of the ship pulling cranking to move the sails. It was alot of fun and now Josh wants to put our boys in sailing. Why not!?

Our ship is currently , the worlds largest cruise ship. we had a Rock wall, full size basketball court, Wave rider.(simulates an ocean wave that you can boogie board and surf on) like 4-5 hot tubs, 4 different pools, and ice rink and so much more.

IT was really hard not having my baby girl with us, but daily emails home and the occasional phone call once we were on land made it easier. We still had a blast and are looking at other places that we want to cruise to. I'm thinking a Mediterranean one whoever those are even longer 11 days or more. Maybe a Disney Cruise will come sooner, after all josh and I still act and wish we were still kids.

NEED TO UPDATE

very busy around here. And I know all of you are too. will be updating soon. especially since I didn't do a christmas card either. UGH!!!

more bows

My sister Brie is extremely creative and talented, we've also teased her about being so elaborate. (ex. we would make gingerbread house every year before Christmas and hers would always look pretty and fancy, but she would keep adding more candy, more icing, more candy , more icing... and by the end you could barely see any thing that looked like a house, just an explosion of candy and icing. ) Now back to my post....
We both had our first girls this summer and when I went out to visit her, her and I had a blast making bows together for the little princesses. I've made a few bows that coordinate with several of Varsity's outfits. As for Brie she is busy making AWESOME bows. She's also started making TUTUs. Hopefully she can give me a few tips when I see her next week. But knowing how unimaginative I'm glad she has decided to start selling them. Instead of going and being overwhelmed with the many different ribbons I can choose from and then figuring out what kind of bow I want to attempt to make. I'll do all of that with a click of a button. THANKS BRIE
if anyone is interested in seeing her bows go to this link.
OH BOW!

And SnOw it starts

These are picture I just took. 3:45 and it started snowing. don't know how long it is suppose to snow for, but the boys are loving it.

"Harvest Bow"

Thankyou Aunt BB for the Havest Bow. it looks a little big in the picture but in person it looks soooo cute.
Poor baby so tired and yet mom is still taking pictures.




Got it!!! everynow and then I thought i could see a little dimple. Well now I've got proof that I'm not seeing things